M Baker Recycling Ltd, which handles 75,000 tonnes of waste electronics at its site in St Helens every year, has been acquired by Environmental Intelligence Ltd – a company set up by M Baker Recycling directors Andy Slaney and Julie-Ann Adams.
The buyout follows the retirement of M Baker Recycling founder Michael Baker, and will see the new management team taking advantage of the impending WEEE Regulations to expand business.
The Regulations obligate electronics manufacturers and importers to pay for the collection and recycling of waste appliances from July 1 (see letsrecycle.com story).
This will include working with manufacturers to design electronics which are easier to recycle and to recycle new waste electronic streams.
Announcing the buyout, MBR director Andy Slaney said: “We are confident that with the investment this deal has secured, the huge potential of MBR in the WEEE recycling market can now be realised.”
He added: “The company already has great management combined with a proven track record and exemplary environmental accreditations and we are looking forward to work with all of the existing team as we seek to expand services and gain improved knowledge of the WEEE make up and return to life potential.”
Electronics
At the St Helens recycling facility, which is located within the Parr Industrial site, M Baker Recycling currently processes around 400,000 fridges and cooling appliances a year, 600,000 display units and around 20,000 tonnes of other waste electronics.
These waste appliances come from local authorities, hospitals, universities and holiday centres.
This includes about 40% of waste electronics generated by the the Republic of Ireland (see letsrecycle.com story) and material from Jersey and the Isle of Mann.
Appliances are demanufactured using a fridge recycling plant, WEEE plant and two specially designed CRT dismantling machines into plastic, glass, wood and metal.
MBR director Julie Ann Adams said: “We are looking forward to the implementation of the WEEE regulations as the volumes of WEEE will increase they will get rid of a lot of the cowboys out there and raise the level of professionalism. We spend a lot of money making sure we are compliant and have designed a web based system which tracks WEEE material in and out of the country and produces evidence notes.”
She added: “MBR has an excellent reputation with its clients and stakeholders and has worked hard from a scratch start in 2001 to become one of the leading WEEE facility providers. We have enjoyed the first five years of success with the M Baker Group and we are really looking forward to continuing success as an independent company.”
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